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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
... tends to be mentioned as merely anecdotal. This essay argues that Yugoslavia represented an important detour for Césaire. Césaire’s friendship with Guberina and his discovery of Martinska allowed him to see how the particularity of his historical experience as a member of the African diaspora could also...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of new communities. This “turn” can be productively analogized by what Edouard Glissant, in his own refashioning of Deleuzian language, calls détour . Brathwaite suggests that the desire to migrate, to cross, “is at the heart of [Caribbean] sensibility—whether that migration is in fact...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 100–104.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of ritual, the site of practice, the refuge site where past
and present merge to allow the emergence of a work . . . always unfinished. The site of daily
labor based on the principle of detour, of the incongruous. Detour becomes a key concept; it
indicates a change of direction. I can then act, allow...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Throughout this text, Glissant emphasizes the difficulty of resisting domination
that is not local and brutally obvious but operates at arm’s length, in a “concealed” fashion.
For instance, it is in this context that his concept of “detour” must be understood. A
detour...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2010
... approach to history that Glissant promotes through his
theory of deferral, of détour. Glissant begins his search for the unspoken event of slavery in
Faulkner’s works and ponders what it was that led Faulkner “to hide everything while reveal-
ing it: the deferral of the South’s damnation...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
...-capitalist armed economic terrorism as democracy?” (101). Santiago Muñoz’s films “pay attention”— listen —with images-sounds that not only break but perform a diversion ( détour ), in Édouard Glissant’s sense, of the coordinates of the sense of modernity/coloniality. Sensorial errancy in her films enacts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2017
... instead to conduct research in Sri Lanka, on a group of healing rituals called yaktovil . It certainly wasn't a clearly thought-out decision. After all, I knew next to nothing about Sri Lanka, even less about these arcane practices. I had, by a series of detours, arrived in the anthropology department...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128.
Published: 01 March 2005
...,” Edwards identifi es the centrality of framing strate-
gies in the print culture of black modernity and links these strategies to the practice
of translation. Using Glissant’s notion of the detour as a mode of strategic indirection,
Edwards reads black internationalism as an attempt “to translate race...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... detours to the Cape enabled through close readings of Walrond's “Vampire Bat” and Williams's The British Negro . 18 My interest is in field formation, institutional networks, the silences they engender, and what this can tell us about the limits of nationally overdetermined knowledge projects...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
... with a single origin,” he focuses on an “abandonment of pure original values” that “allows for an unprecedented potential for contact.” 3 This latter, crucial for how creolization operates and the central organizing principle of The Sound of Culture , he terms diversion or detour . Instead of being...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on resistance and negotiation of the latter. 8 In a French context within which the theory of cultural legitimacy is perceived as occupying the space devoted to cultural studies in the anglophone world but also as allowing resistance to its alleged hyperconstructivism and populism, the detour through Gramsci...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 93–99.
Published: 01 November 2009
...
present in movement, a theater already there, a tale retold continually, the place-presences
are antiplaces of the perpetual shedding of surfaces that transgress and practice detour, to
reinstate them requires the gaze of the nomad; they are not idealized but mobile, fed by the
history of histories...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... Emanating from discrepant positions in diaspora, Phonographies and Sonic Bodies must each negotiate its relationship to the fabled source of black music: Africa. Here each book takes its signature detour on the route home. Music is so central to traditional and modern African societies, African music...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 39–57.
Published: 01 November 2012
... désordonnés
pour créer un monde chaotique ; il détourne sciemment ces symboles en les recomposant
dans un corps ou une cosmogonie, créateur et créatrice de sens, dans le fait même de cette
réorganisation ou de ce détour.
Anicet parle aussi de « cannibalisme de détour ». Dans...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... an art of interpretation that relies on insight, not exact measurements or a methodical testing of all potential solutions. In positing the legibility of behaviors (conscious or unconscious) as readable texts and the value of interpretative predicaments and elective detours that yield no final solutions...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
...) and Pathologies of Paradise: Caribbean Detours (2013); editor of Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2012); and coeditor, with Gaurav Desai, of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (2005). Her research and teaching interests include Caribbean, postcolonial, feminist, diaspora...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
... an impossible departure and return, they are marked by the ambiguity of an eternal movement of ‘detours.’ ” 20 We can see in this observation an echo of Cabrera's “they are exiles for life.” Cabrera admits she did not plan to return to Cuba: “Luego he observado que a los cubanos que iban a Francia, les...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in the (formally, at least, if not unambiguously so culturally) anglophone Carib‑
bean island-territory of Dominica. It will be a question for future inquiry whether or to what
extent this practice of self-estrangement in the hermeneutic detour through the question of
Dominica enabled a different way...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
... the world war, underwritten as it was by a set of geopolitical migrations—Glissant's now oft-cited détours and retours —whose shape and structure formed the conditions for writing from and to Martinique, often through the French colonialisms and black internationalisms of the early to mid-twentieth...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Skanking” on him 1978 Kaya album in this, though in the reggae musician’s case him was making space for a smoke break, announcing one album that many think is a break—or more like a letdown—from the revolutionary reggae of Rastaman Vibration and Exodus . A detour into the intimate, into love songs...
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